This novel is a masterwork of collaboration, form, and message. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and profound story about how one boy can maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. “Boys, just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. I love novels in verse, and the new book Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam does not disappoint! The mix of art and poetry on the page is a compelling read that finishes quick but lingers in your heart.Īmal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet.
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